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Imrich Bugár, the first world champion in men's discus and an Olympic medalist, dies at 70

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PRAGUE (AP) — Imrich Bugár, the first world champion in men’s discus and an Olympic medalist for Czechoslovakia, has died. He was 70.His former club, Dukla, said he died Wednesday but did not disclose the cause of death.Bugár was born in Ohrady on April 14, 1955 to a Hungarian family in what is now southern Slovakia and was a leading figure in discus in the 1980s. He won gold at the inaugural IAAF world athletics championships in Helsinki in 1983 with a throw of 67.72 meters. That year, he clear

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